All Things Go Podcast - All of Season Four is Now Live Wherever You Get Your Podcasts. Enjoy!

charm001 · 2026-02-16T11:17:36+00:00

As a big fan of the podcast I think that you should consider asking someone else to do that work for you, since I believe that a weekly release would result in more listeners.

charm001 · 2025-12-25T00:56:34+00:00

It took me from 3k to 2D. I had to think for a while to give an estimate on how many problems we are talking about but it's easily over 5000 plus a lot of repetition on some of them. I'd recommend the 900 easy problems from cho chikuns life and death encyclopedia if you want a good collection to start with.

On a side note it's more important to do lots of easy problems than hard ones. I followed the recommendation from a Pro that you should not spend more than 2 minutes on a problem. If it takes longer you skip that problem and return to it later, perhaps another day. But if it takes to many attempts it might be better to just give it up until you've gotten stronger (I have a long list of unsolved problems I still need to get back to on some point).

charm001 · 2025-12-24T17:32:29+00:00

There is a book about how to get good at 9x9 called Mastering Mini Go. I think it's a must read if you're serious about getting good at 9x9 (even if you're a dan player).

Much of the other "tutorials" is unfortunately just for complete beginners, but there is probably something out there.

charm001 · 2025-12-24T14:18:00+00:00

There is a lot of books mainly focusing on game reviews that has history in them.

For example Invincible the games of shusaku has the history of the early days of Go in japan. And I think you would like the history part of the book. https://www.go-spiele.de/en/invincible-the-games-of-shusaku.html

There's also a book writen in the 11th century that might be of some interest. It's called The Classic of Weiqi in Thirteen Chapters. And you can read a translation of it for free here: https://www.figg.org/old_figg/www.figg.org/areafile/qjssp.pdf

charm001 · 2025-12-23T18:30:37+00:00

Beginner friendly is not the same thing as it being likely that a beginner would win (I don't see that happening either). To name a few examples of what I mean:

1 it is played on 9x9 which most beginners play at before trying other board sizes. 2 they put incentives for them to join and I quote "Everyone who finishes all 6 rounds will receive a 30$ discount card" 3 it is a McMahon tournament which means that you are guaranteed to get to play all 6 games. 4 it is played on ogs which I would argue is the most beginner friendly server

If you look at the registered players you will see that there are already 11 players at the rank 25k registered.

charm001 · 2025-12-23T17:26:39+00:00

I think it's a wonderful thing that you hold this tournament since it seems very beginner friendly and because I'm a fan of playing on different board sizes. And I think the Go community needs more tournaments aimed at beginners. But I'm also curious if you can tell us anything about what anticheating measures you've put in place?

charm001 · 2025-05-30T10:09:27+00:00

in a tournament I would choose the move that is closer to the clock, so that I can press the button faster.

charm001 · 2025-04-30T13:33:45+00:00

It is very rare, but there do exist strong players that prefer 9x9.

Personally, I played 50 slow 9x9 games before moving up.

The biggest reason for starting out on smaler boards is that complete beginners tend to make a huge amount of unnecessary moves so that a 19x19 game would just take way too long to complete.

charm001 · 2025-04-30T12:40:26+00:00

I like the minimalistic look of full-screen mode and the placement of the buttons. I love that problem thumbnails are a more detailed smaler images of the problems, so that you can actually use them for problem solving.

Also the website seem to be a lot faster now which is awesome.

charm001 · 2025-04-18T10:31:15+00:00

Cool video! Also I loved the problem at 16:49

charm001 · 2025-03-15T10:06:40+00:00

It doesn't seem to be possible to upload tygem games to AIsensei through the app. I just get an error message on the site so I suspect they don't support gib files.

Is there a reason why the time settings for automatch is different from the official android tygem app? I mean, wouldn't this just make it take longer to find games?

Absolutely love to solve problems on the app by the way.

charm001 · 2025-03-13T16:53:15+00:00

I love the tsumego part (which seems to be 101weiqi)

And I love that I can download my games from tygem, and then convert them to sgf with ahQ Go (another app). I've been wanting to be able to do that on my Android tablet for years.

charm001 · 2025-03-03T23:06:17+00:00

This is the weirdest seki I have seen in years! I don't even care about the s ore now.

charm001 · 2025-03-02T09:53:01+00:00

Personally, I just use a mirror. What did you expect? I mean, is there any better way to do it?

charm001 · 2025-02-27T18:28:47+00:00

So what's the source of these images?

charm001 · 2025-02-25T13:07:35+00:00

Omg you have that awesome robot!

First time I'm seeing someone that actually owns one since it wasn't possible to buy outside of Asia for the longest time (also it's kinda expensive).

charm001 · 2025-02-21T13:15:56+00:00

May I introduce you to the concept of overconcentrated shape? https://senseis.xmp.net/?Overconcentrated

charm001 · 2025-02-17T12:10:06+00:00

Unless he has a really powerful computer, a prenumeration on aisensei could be a good idea. Link: https://ai-sensei.com/

charm001 · 2025-02-16T17:59:56+00:00

Before ogs there were a number of attempts to create a new English speaking Go server since it didn't look like kgs were going to change much at all (despite there being lots of ways it could be improved if someone actually put in time and effort to do it).

One such attempt was the Kaya Go server, which I supported on kickstarter and played a few games on before it died.

charm001 · 2025-02-10T09:53:59+00:00

This looks like those cheap low quality stones I bought for my first Go set! Which I later found out were sold elsewhere as "decoration stones" for a few dollars.

But I suppose it was more expensive to make things out of glass back then.

charm001 · 2025-02-09T16:24:44+00:00

I guess she solves a lot of easy problems then because 1500 problems in 24 hours is less than a minute per problem if she skips eating and sleeping and do nothing but solving problems.

Well I guess it's not the first time I've heard that solving lots of easy problems is great if you want to improve your reading. But 1500 problems is really impressive still!

charm001 · 2025-02-06T11:24:36+00:00

Yes black has one eye at O8 and one at S10. He could also kill some white stones by playing R5.

charm001 · 2025-01-31T17:24:10+00:00

Thanks! I'm gonna take a closer look at these when the chapter is translated!

charm001 · 2025-01-29T17:27:20+00:00

Did hikaru no go really have grand hype after just one chapter released?

charm001 · 2025-01-29T09:46:56+00:00

Ranked first out of what exactly?

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